Caepet attaching strip and bracket



Aug. 7, 1951 c. J. PAUL CARPET ATTACHING STRIP AND BRACKET Filed Dec. 2'7, 1949 INVENTOR. CHWFLEJ f P1401.

BY X/ M 177' TOR/VE Y Patented Aug. 7, 1951 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE CARPET ATTACHIN G STRIP AND BRACKET Charles J. Paul, New York, N. Y., assignor of onehalf to Joseph Messina, Brooklyn, N. Y.

Application December 27, 1949, Serial No. 135,200

2 Claims. (01. 16-46) This invention relates to a carpet attaching bracket.

It is an object of the present invention to provide a bracket by which carpet attaching strips can be connected to the bottom wall moulding of the room and to eliminate the need for the attachment of the attaching strip to the floor with cement or the like, as when the floor is of concrete or such materials and not penetrable with a nail, to save the drying time and labor ordinarily required for the cementing operation.

It is another object of the present invention to provide a bracket adapted for the securement of a carpet attaching strip to a floor which is ad-.

justable and formed of two parts so that the bracket can be made available for corner installations and in door ways where the carpet attaching strip is to extend at an angle to the wall surface to which the bracket is to be attached.

Other objects of the present invention are to provide a bracket for a carpet attaching strip for floors which is easy to attach to the wall, of simple construction, inexpensive to manufacture, has a minimum number of parts, consumes little space, permits the edge of the carpet to be turned down whereby it is unnecessary to have the carpet edge hemmed and eificient in operation.

For other objects and for a better understanding of the invention, reference may be had to the following detailed description taken in connection with the accompanying drawing, in which Fig. 1 is a perspective view of the bracket.

Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the bracket with the parts adjusted relative to one another to permit the securement of the bracket to the wall and access for the hammer serving to drive. the tack for the connection of the bracket to the wall.

Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the brackets with the carpet attaching strip placed in the brackets and with one of the brackets being secured by a tack to the carpet attaching strip.

Fig. 4 is an enlarged sectional view taken generally on line 4-4 of Fig. 3, but with the carpet edge secured to the carpet attaching strip and folded downwardly over the edge of the carpet attaching strip and into the bracket.

Fig. 5 is a perspective view of the brackets arranged at a door opening with one part angled to the part which is attached to the wall and holding the carpet attaching strip across the threshold of the door opening.

Fig. 6 is a perspective view with the bracket parts arranged in a different manner for retaining the carpet attaching strip.

Referring now to the figures, l 0 represents generally the attaching bracket. This bracket comprises parts II and I2 which are pivotally connected together by a rivet 13. The bracket part H has a turned up flange M with holes [5 at the opposite sides of it through which tacks l6 are extended for the attachment of the part II to the side wall of the room. These tacks are projected into the wall by a tack hammer I1. In order to make possible this attachment of the bracket part i l to the wall with the hammer H, the part I2 is pivoted in the manner as shown in Fig. 2, to one side to allow clearance for the movement of the hammer.

The bracket part l2 has a folded up retaining portion [8 adapted to receive the edge of carpet attaching strip I9 and with a lip 2| adapted to lie over the top face of the attaching strip IS. The carpet attaching strip H! has the usual upstanding tack projections 22 which receive and retain carpet material 23 that is folded down as indicated at 24 over the edge of the strip IS. The usual floor padding 25 is providedunder the carpet material 23. The carpet material need not be hemmed because it is turned down, as indicated at 24, so that the edge of the same is not seen.

The top of the attaching strip l9 will be retained under the lip 2| by a tack 26 which is driven through a hole 27. The strip may be further retained by turned up corner projections 28 and 29.

In Fig. 5, there is shown the use of this bracket in a door opening where the part I2 is retained in an angled position to hold attaching strip 19 in the door opening. The brackets I0 are connected to the sides of the opening, as shown, and the strip l 9 is connected between them. In a like manner, the bracket Ill can be disposed in the corner of a room.

In Fig. 6 there is illustrated another manner in which the bracket can be adjusted to hold the strip l9. In this case the upwardly extending retaining portion It lies adjacent to the flange I4 01 the part II. the rivet I3 from the position shown in Fig. l to assume this new position. In this manner, the attaching strip will be better retained as when there is a great strain upon the carpet 23. In this manner, the edge of the attaching strip which lies adjacent the wall may be better retained against upward pivotal movement from the floor.

It should be apparent that there has been provided a bracket for carpet attaching strips which The part I2 is pivoted about,

tail construction, it shall be understood that such changes shall be within the spirit and scope of the present invention as definediby the appended- 7 claims.

I claim:

1. In a carpet attaching strip"as'sefnbly;" a" carpet attaching strip havingtupstanding tack projections extending upwardly from the top surface thereof for the attachment of the'-eiige"ora carpet thereover, a bracket structure having a bottom -portion adapted to support the' same on a-fioor' 'adj a'ceht to a wallg said' -bracket structure V having a turned-'up fiang, means for attaching said turned'upfian'ge to -aw'all, a'n'upw'ardlyex tending carpet attaching l strip portion connected to said bottom portion and spaced outwardly fr'om said turned up Han'g'ea distance oftheor'd'er of the thickness of a carpet to allow the edge of the carpet to be turned downwardly into the space therebetween upon being fixed to the projections of the carpet attaching strip, said upwardly-extending carpet attaching strip portion having an outwardly extending lip, said carpet attaching strip being disposed beneath said lip, and means for fixing said lip to said carpet attaching strip.

2=-I'n" a-carpet attaching strip assembly as defined in claim 1 and said upwardly extending carpet attaching strip portion being pivotally connected to the bottom portion of said bracket stru'cture' onaverticalaxis and turnable thereabout to position the carpet attaching strip portio'n' aw'ayfrom" theturned up flange to permit a'cce'ss'tdsaid'turned up flange attaching means forattachingesaid' means and the bracket struc ture to the wall.

' CHARLES J. PAUL.

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